Medicine: PubMed and EndNote

This course aims to familiarise students with searching in PubMed effectively and efficiently using a variety of techniques (freetext, MeSH etc). Participants will learn how to manage their references and set up regular alerts on a topic, to import their references into EndNote (and other referencing tools), and to create and manipulate a bibliography.

• Postgraduates in Science, and Medicine in particular
• Researchers in Science, and Medicine in particular
• Further details regarding Cambridge University Library's eligibility criteria are available

Number of sessions: 1

• PubMed
• EndNote

• To discover how to search PubMed effectively and efficiently using a variety of techniques
• To learn how to manage references and set up regular alerts on a topic
• To learn how import references into EndNoteWeb in order to create and manipulate a bibliography

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

• To enter the University Library you must have either a current University of Cambridge ID card or a current Reader's Ticket. For more information and to apply for a Reader's Ticket, please see the Admissions webpages

One session of three hours

A number of times per term

• Medicine: Managing Your Bibliography (for University and NHS)
• Medicine: Systematic Literature Reviews - A 'How To' Guide (for University and NHS)
• Medicine: The "Big Four" Databases For Your Literature Search (for students and researchers at the University of Cambridge)